Download
1 / 66
660 likes | 672 Views
Wednesday 4 th November. LHS Young Inventors Project. In this week’s sessions I will: Continue working on a project with Korea and Taiwan Investigate inventions of the 21 st Century Record a video message for pupils in Korea and Taiwan. Our school’s expanding global community.
E N D
Wednesday 4th November LHS Young Inventors Project
In this week’s sessions I will: • Continue working on a project • with Korea and Taiwan • Investigate inventions of the 21st Century • Record a video message for pupils • in Korea and Taiwan
Our school’s expanding global community • In June 2008, teachers from our school visited Korea. • They wanted to make new links with schools in Korea and Taiwan so that pupils at LHS could gain international friends and learn more about life in the Far East. • Last May Mr Donnelly visited Taiwan and helped to make the links between the three countries even stronger. Now Litherland has some new link schools that have become part of our Global Community of students and teachers.
What do we get out of this partnership? • You are about to enter the second year of an exciting international project, making contact on the internet and by post with pupils of around your age in Korea and Taiwan. • This year, pupils from our school (yr 10) are going to be visiting Taiwan and in the future we hope that some more well behaved pupils from LHS will have the chance to visit Korea and Taiwan!
You will also get the chance to complete a project and swap work with people who are thousands of miles away. Technology means that distance doesn’t matter in our world as much any more and that we are truly all Global Citizens working in a Global Learning Community
Session One How good is your memory?
Memory and Listening Skills • In the last session, many of you showed that you are very good at recording information! • Let’s recap some of that information now to refresh our memories about two of our link schools. • Your task is to try to remember which school the following information comes from. Is it Sinseo or Da-Yi? Look at each slide that follows and put your hands up to answer!
Is it… Link school 1
Sinseo Middle School – Seoul - Korea • http://www.sinseo.ms.kr
Or is it… Link school 2
Da-Yi Junior High – Kaohsiung - Taiwan The front view The back view
mian xian – (myan shan) Something that would be eaten in the school canteen at Da-Yi Mian Xian is a thick soup containing noodles, oysters and other seafood.
Sinseo Middle School is a mixed ‘middle school’ which means that its pupils are between 11 and 14 years old. It was built in 1982. It has 2,261 students and 99 teachers! More than us! • Facilities include: • An outdoor basketball court • A sports field • An auditorium • A gym • Over 50 classrooms!
Pupils in a ‘lecture’ Most classes at Da-Yi take place in small classrooms like ours but some are in large auditoriums with over 100 students.
All pupils at Sinseo MUST take classes in Korean, Ethics, Social Studies, Maths, Science, PE, Technology & Home Management, Music, Fine Arts and English • Here is a timetable of the day’s lessons. How does it compare to our day?
Da Yi Junior High’s School Motto School logo How do these compare to ours?
Kimchi Something pupils at Sinseo would eat in the school canteen A spicy vegetable (usually cabbage) dish that is normally served at every meal, in the same way as some families here might serve bread with every meal. Kimchi has been part of Korean food culture for hundreds of years. It is low fat and very healthy.
Da-Yi Goals of the school • (1)To provide an interesting and safe environment (2)To make students enjoy learning in the school (3)To help students develop their interests in different fields Does this sound familiar??
The Taekwondo Club The athletics club The school orchestra Sinseo or Da-Yi? Answer – Da-Yi
The Lion Dance Club Sinseo or Da-Yi? • Lion dance - Google Video Answer - Da-Yi Do you remember what the Lion Dance is?
Special Assignment from Principal Pan • Principal Pan is the Head teacher of Da-Yi Junior High School in Kaohsiung. He has asked for LHS to to provide him with some young Language Consultants to help him to create his new English language website and prospectus, as there are a growing number of British and American families moving to the area around his school.
In order to be considered for the role you must create a poster promoting his school to parents. • Use a double page in your books or a piece of blank paper and use the notes you have taken in your books to give parents information about the school.
Include: • Information about the number of students • The ‘goals’ of the school • The school motto and logo • Extra curricular activities on offer Things to think about: • How will you attract the attention of parents? • Will you have a big heading with the school’s name? • Will you have a slogan? • Will you use the school motto as the heading? • Will you use illustrations/drawings?
International Project • This year, the project with Korea and Taiwan is about Tomorrow’s World. We will investigate inventions of the 20th Century and how they have changed our lives. • We will then look at new inventions and become young inventors ourselves by eventually taking part in a competition with our link schools. • We will also be sharing the work we do with pupils in Korea and Taiwan.
Inventions challenge • With a partner, try to think of as many things as possible that • you have around you either at home or in school that have been • invented by somebody to try to make people’s lives better or • easier in some way. • Eg) • a toaster (so you don’t have to grill toast) • A microwave ( so you don’t have to wait an hour for your tea) • A projector (so the teacher doesn’t have to write on the board!) • Blinds (to stop the sun from getting in your eyes) • Make two lists – you have 8 minutes!! • Invention How it makes life better The pair with the most inventions at the end will win a prize
Great Inventions of our time Pay close attention as there will be a quiz at the end of the lesson!
Over the last century, some people have had really good ideas about how we can improve our lives and have invented things to help us to do just that. • However, sometimes when we look back at early versions of things we know and love they are not always so impressive and can be quite amusing to look at!
1970s 1960s The first Computers! 1980s
At first, the men who invented computers thought that by 2009 robots would be walking the earth alongside people and that computers would be even bigger than they were at the start! • It didn’t quite happen like that!
The Spectrum Computer This is a computer that some of your older relatives might remember as being the first real games console. You had to use your TV or buy a special monitor and all of the games were on cassette tape!!
The Amiga 500 A step up from the Spectrum! If you had one of these you were lucky as everybody wanted one!! It had the first disk drives we had really seen on home computers
The Word Processor • If you were at school, college or university in the 90s there is a good chance you would have used one of these to do your work. The only trouble is because the screen is so small you can only see about three lines of your work at a time so it was really hard to see any mistakes!
Changes in the World of Music and Sound
Changes in the World of Transport
One of the first modern passenger airplanes (1960s) A Boeing 747 passenger airplane (2009)
